as you know i'm more of a clean energy guy but taking that away from russia, their monopoly in energy, is good. but republicans are missing an opportunity to look more bipartisan. >> congressman engel, i think what bothers republicans is how much the president and the administration seems to have empowered putin over the past few years. just to give you a couple of examples. russia controls the northern distribution network which is one of the main access points in afghanistan that our troops rely on to get supplies and food and water. putin controls that. putin is controlling our syria chemical weapons collection deal, which is a farce. putin is undermining our negotiations in iran. have we given him too much power? why has president obama seemingly trusted him on so many fronts? >> we don't trust him. we don't trust him at all. there's commonality between us and russia. we both are opposed to islamic terrorism. we both want to make sure that iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon. so we work with the russians when we need to. but i don't think it empowered putin. i think putin is a very